Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Starting March 7th between 4-4:30pm Eastern I'm going to begin an experiment on Twitter. Every day for 100 days straight I'm going to tweet a Leonard Cohen song lyric. Not just any lyric will do though. There must be rules for this kind of thing.

The Rules

Duration: 100 days straight (no gaps)

Timing: tweets will be sent around the same time every day

Focus: same songwriter (no intermixing songwriters)

Writers only: doesn't matter who performs the song

No titles: lyric cannot contain the song title or any significant words from the song title

Significance: lyric should have some poetic, lyrical, political, or social significance

Simplicity: lyric is presented by itself without commentary, quotes, or other affectations

Accurate: lyric is presented exactly as the writer wrote it without paraphrasing or tweet hacking

Hashtagged: only allowable embellishment is the hashtag of #100daysofcohen

Retweetable: maximum length of tweet including hashtag should be around 125 so that it can be easily retweeted

Breadth: As much as possible the collection should cover the breadth of the songwriter's career rather than just one period

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